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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
I bought @panic.com's Nova a few months ago because it is great for my occasional html-ing and css-ing, and I would rather step on a rake than use VSCode or something like that. Nova is a genuine mac-assed app and it is *on sale for the next two weeks*. If you've been on the fence, now is the time.
panic.com Panic @panic.com · Sep 30
🎆 NOVA is ON SALE! Nova is a truly special code editor—fast, beautiful, and feature-packed. We want more coders to check it out and maybe fall in love with it.

For two weeks, from September 30 until October 14, Nova is 40% OFF. Hurry!

Get it at ➡️ nova.app
Nova Sale. 40% off. Sep 30—Oct 14. Free demo at nova.app
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ceej.online
my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
a bald stick figure in a chair with his arms out in front like he’s typing on a keyboard, and he’s got the biggest angry frown imaginable and eyebrows that express frustrated bemusement
September 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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thatconnorguy.bsky.social
BRO! THYE BROUGHT BACK THE MAGSAFE BATTERY PACK!?!?!
September 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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statnews.com
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
www.statnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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urbaneturtle.com
Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.
photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos meme guy
July 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.
July 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 8
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.

"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.

"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 8
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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asmith83.bsky.social
but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
Well put by @mmasnick.bsky.social.

www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c...
The “bubble” framing also fundamentally misunderstands what most people want from social media. When you go to a knitting circle, are you disappointed that most people there want to talk about knitting? When you join a book club, do you complain that everyone seems interested in books? Pundits and politicians may want to broadcast to the largest possible audience, but most people are looking for community, not maximum reach. Most people aren’t looking for a debating arena. They want to talk with people they like about topics they care about—whether that’s knitting, local politics, or professional interests. This becomes impossible when the platform owner has hung out a shingle for Nazis, and your attempts to discuss your hobbies get drowned out by fascist propaganda algorithmically pushed into your timeline. That’s not “diverse discourse”—it’s just a bad user experience.
June 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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huxleymorgan.bsky.social
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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anildash.com
THIS PRECISELY
charliejane.bsky.social Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Jun 21
I see people saying stuff like "why criticize Substack but give other problematic platforms (like, say, YouTube) a pass?

Which is a fair point.

Thing is, YouTube is a quasi-monopoly for sharable video. Substack wants to have a newsletter monopoly but *isn't there yet*. And it should never happen.
June 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
“The “bubble” framing also fundamentally misunderstands what most people want from social media.”

yes

and really reveals what the whiners themselves want from social media lol
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jun 20
Had some thoughts on the narrative about Bluesky's exaggerated death and supposed bubble
techdirt.com Techdirt @techdirt.com · Jun 20
Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…
June 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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famousmortimer.bsky.social
"inline skates"
- boring & stupid
- driest possible description
- something an accountant would do

"rollerblades"
- exciting
- hints at violence
- vaguely futuristic
- something you'd use to evade the robot police in megagotham's slums
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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jwmason.bsky.social
My local coffee shop is not playing around.
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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ultrabrilliant.xyz
Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.
A stock photo of two people doing business on a staircase. Two dudes standing around a watercooler, presumably having a 'watercooler conversation' about last night's Seinfeld or whatever. A woman reclining in a chair in a business suit with her shoes off. A guy in a suit on a city street doing some damn business on a cell phone. The business never stops!!!!!
May 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
billimp.bsky.social
Trump take Switch 2?!
Breaking: Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
Preorders won’t start April 9th as originally announced.
www.theverge.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Read this right now

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
March 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
billimp.bsky.social
I can’t believe I have purposely lived in New York State for 98% of my life, the other 2% solely to work for the Senate in D.C., paying taxes and voting and being a dedicated Democrat, to be betrayed like this by BOTH of my (D) U.S. Senators.

What a fool I’d be to support this party ever again.
March 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
billimp.bsky.social
I never knew about this until today! What a wonderful story behind a great ad.
kimoco.bsky.social Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · Mar 10
I remember this!

San Francisco was into this for sure.
March 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM